shoobie n.
(US) a passenger on a day-trip excursion, also attrib.
Philadelphia inquirer (PA) 7 Aug. 2-J/2: Anyone who grew up at the beach will cheer Aaron Lucier’s ‘Shoobie-Eating Monster’: Shoobies [...] are tourists. | ||
Glitz 111: You had your shoobies, people’d bring their lunch in a shoebox, eat on the Broadwalk or out on the beach. | ||
Courier-Post (Camden, NJ) 25 June 65/1: Matthew [...] is chaning his wet bathing suit in the back seat of the family car [...] — in traditional shoobie fashion. | ||
Asbury Park Press (NJ) 25 May 72/1: That distinctively South Jersey ex[pression ‘shoobie,’ meaning a person who visits the sea shore for a single day. | ||
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 4 July W18/4: Folks go to Nantasket Beach for a day. Bu they don’t use the term ‘shoobie’. | ||
Philadelphia Dly News (PA) 21 May 25/2: Things shoobies do that annoy locals [...] Boot camp on the beach [etc]. |